Turn a virtual machine on or off

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To turn a virtual machine on or off

  1. Open the Administration Website.
  2. In the navigation pane, click Master Status.
  3. Under Virtual Machine Name, point to the name of the appropriate virtual machine, and then click Turn On or Turn Off.

Warning

Turning off a virtual machine is like pulling the plug on a physical computer. All contents stored in memory will be lost if you turn off a virtual machine without first shutting down the guest operating system.

Note

To perform this procedure, you must have the appropriate permissions. If you do not have the appropriate permissions, you will either receive an error message or you will not be able to view certain menu items and options described in this procedure. To change your permissions, contact your Virtual Server administrator. For more information, see Securing Virtual Server. For instructions on opening the Administration Website, see "Open the Administration Website" in Related Topics. When Undo Disks is enabled on the virtual machine, you choose an option for turning off the virtual machine based on whether you want to keep the changes. For more information, see "Using Undo Disks" in Related Topics.

See Also

Concepts

Open the Administration Website
Using Undo Disks
Shut down a virtual machine
Configure automatic startup
Managing virtual machine state